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> Pessimist Nathan? I seems to me that it would be out of character for > Worldcom to integrate MCI. They didn't with MFS, ANS or UUNet. Different > market targets? ANS just happened a little while ago so theres not really been much time for wide scale integration. As for MFS and UUNet, well I tend to think that UUNet pretty well had to stand on its own when worldcomm picked them up. (How do you integrate an internet company with a telco? easiest just to let them be a branch off the telco.) As for MFS, they become the "local" portion of worldcomm. >From my perspective, with the original combination of worldcomm/mfs/uunet, there were three very logical divisions. The biggest hole is the sales and etc not being merged propperly (causing lots of headaches for lots of people.) I suspect there will be a much greater effort to merge ANS with UUNet and, once thats more or less complete MCI's network will get sucked into the result. (I think it may be easier for uunet and ans to become joined than it will be for ans and mci.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Bouchard GlobalCenter [email protected] Primenet Network Operations Internet Solutions for (602) 416-6422 800-373-2499 x6422 Growing Businesses FAX: (602) 416-9422 http://www.primenet.com http://www.globalcenter.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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